Candle extinguisher



T. CULLEN.

CANDLE EXTINGUISHER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.4'| 1920.

Patented Aug. 8, 1922.

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CANDLE EXTINGUISHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1922,

Application filed August 4, 1920. Serial No. 401,160.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS CULLEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Amboy, in the county of Lee and State of Illinois, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Candle Extinguishers, of whichthe following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an efficient candleextinguisher, which will eliminate the dripping of wax or grease uponaltar cloths and other objects beneath the candles.

Another object of my invention is to provide such an extinguisher with adrip receptacle positioned and arranged to receive melted candlematerial which may fall from the inverted extinguisher cap.

A further object is to adapt such an extinguisher for efficient use incombination with a candle lighter.

The extinguishers now in general use cause much damage to alter clothsand other objects beneath the candles by allowing melted wax, or othermaterial of which the candles are composed, to drip from theextinguishers. This old type of extinguisher usually includes a conicalcap upon a staff and is without any receptacle for the drip from saidcap. The inner surface of such a cap coming in contact with the meltingupper end of a lighted candle, always collects by adhesion a largeamount of wax or grease and this, when the cap is lifted from thecandle, drops upon whatever is beneath it. I have found that byproviding a deep cylindrical extinguisher cap very much less wax willadhere to the cap and by arranging such a cap at a proper obtuse anglewith a tubular drip receptacle mounted on the staff under the cap anyliquid material which is free to fall will be received by said tubularreceptacle Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sideelevation of my improved candle extinguisher; Fig. 2 is an elevation ofthe same as it appears from the left of Figure 1; Fig. 3 is a detailperspective view of the upper portion of the same and Fig. 4 is anelevation of an extension rod designed to be interposed in the staff forlengthening the same.

In the drawings 1 have used the numeral 10 to indicate the extinguishercap of my device, 11 the brace, 12 the drip tube, 13

the staff or support, 14: the taper socket, 15 the grip and 1.6 anextension rod for length ening the stafi.

The cap 10 is a hollow cylinder, closed at its upper end, open at itslower end and rigidly mounted on a tongue 12*, formed on the tube 12,with the axis of the cap at an obtuse angle with the axis of said tube.The closed upper end of the cap 10 is preferably formed with an annularflange 10*, and the brace 11 is soldered at its ends to the periphery ofsaid cap and the tube 12 to reinforce the tongue 12 This tongue forms atrough from the cap 10 to the tube 12.

The staff 13 is hollow and fits snugly over a stud 15 formed on theupper end of the grip 15. The upper end of the staff 13 is designed toreceive telescopically the lower end of the tube 12 and to make a rigidconnection therewith. The extension rod 16, may be interposed betweenthe grip 15 and staff 13 when it is desired to reach candles at unusualheights. The stud 15 on the grip 15 is made to fit into the centralcavity of the lower end of the rod 16 and a stud 16 on its upper end,similar to the stud 15, is adapted to telescope with the lower end ofthe staff 13.

The socket 14 for the lighting taper is of common type, consisting of acurved pipe open at the top and having a slot 14 extending substantiallyits entire length. This socket 1 1 is soldered at 14 to the side ofstaff 13 and a small spring catch 17 is slidable in the slot 145 andprovided with suitable means for engaging one end of a parafiine taperwithin the socket. The other end of the taper projects from the upperend of the socket 1a where it is lighted and may be used to lightcandles. As the taper is consumed it may be moved upwards by means ofthe catch 17 in the usual manner.

It is to be understood that in use the cap 10 is brought into verticalposition (open end down) over the wick of a lighted candle and when thelight has been thus extinguished the cap is raised from the candle andthe staff 13 with the tube 12 are moved into upright position as shownin Figure 1. In this position any wax or grease, which may be in the cap10 and in sufficiently fluid condition to run out, will flow over thetongue 12 into the tube 12.

guished candles in good condition to be relighted as, unlike otherextinguishers, it

does not submerge the wick in the meltedmaterial composing the candle.

' Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire toprotect by Letters Patent is:

1. In a candle extinguisher, a staff, a cylindrical cap mounted at theupper end of said staff at an angle with said staff, and a tubular dripreceptacle, with its opening beneath that of said cap, secured to saidstaff.

2. In a candle extinguisher, a staff, a cylindrical cap rigidly mountedat the upper endof said staff, the axis of said cap mak-- ing an obtuseangle with the axis of said staff, and'a tubular drip receptacleintegral with the stafl and having: an opentop beneath the opening ofthe cap.

3. In a candle extinguisher, a staff, a cylindrical cap. rigidly mountedat the upper end of said staff, a drip receptacle with itsopening'beneath that of said cap and at an obtuse angle thereto, and atongue connecting the lower side of said cap.. with the opening in saidreceptacle.

4; 111 ai candl'eextinguisher, a staff, a cyl-- inder having a closedtop and openbase, rigidly mounted at the upper end of said staff, theaxis of said cylinder. making an obtuse angle with the axis of? saidstafi',"a dripreceptacle open at its top, beneath said cylinder, securedin axial alignment with

